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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20078, 26 October 1939, Page 5

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CITY OF FLINT CASE

“DIPLOMATIC DYNAMITE”

STORY OF SEIZURE TAKEN IN MID-ATLANTIC (Reed. Oct. 26, 12 noon.) LONDON, Oct. 25, It is reported from Berlin that the American Charge d’Affaires has been informed that Germany' is consulting Russia concerning the City of Flint, which was captured by a German cruiser. The vessel was taken to Murmansk because she lacked the maps necessary for Baltic navigation and was not seaworthy. She also carried contraband.

A New York message says that the Herald-Tribune, in a leader, referring to the City of Flint incident, says it is full of diplomatic dynamite, but should be, and is being viewed calmly. Britain at present has a number of American vessels under detention in British ports, taken by her own—not prize—crews. -It is the German contention that Germany is following the British example, although in a somewhat different manner. Work of Deutschland A Tromso report states that survivors of the Stonegate have been landed at Tromso. They stated that the Deutschland sank the Stonegate in mid-Atlantic, took the crew aboard and transferred them to a Norwegian vessel after seizing the City of Flint, which the Deutschland Intended to take to a German harbour, but’ ran short of water.

The Stonegate, which was en route from Valparaiso, had picked up the survivors of an undisclosed British steamer which had previously been, sunk with the loss of 15 lives, They were then six days from Panama. The Deutschland sank the Stonegate and later captured the City of-Flint, to which it transferred the survivors, over whom the Germans mounted guard while the City of Flint wandered near Greenland and then dashed for Tromso.